yo to the yo!

All the info is right there on the flyer plane as day. Go to this if you're in the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale/South Florida area! Serge was a God & I'm so excited to listen to him with other people who actually know who he is. Check out his beautiful, melodic and genre spanning music as soon as possible, you will NEVER be the same again.

"Sensation"

Sensation
On the blue summer evenings, I shall go down the paths,
Getting pricked by the corn, crushing the short grass:
In a dream I shall feel its coolness on my feet.
I shall let the wind bathe my bare head.

I shall not speak, I shall think about nothing:
But endless love will mount in my soul;
And I shall travel far, very far, like a gipsy,
Through the countryside - as happy as if I were with a woman.

Arthur Rimbaud
March 1870.

Sensation
Par les soirs bleus d'été, j'irai dans les sentiers,
Picoté par les blés, fouler l'herbe menue :
Rêveur, j'en sentirai la fraîcheur à mes pieds.
Je laisserai le vent baigner ma tête nue.

Je ne parlerai pas, je ne penserai rien :
Mais l'amour infini me montera dans l'âme,
Et j'irai loin, bien loin, comme un bohémien,
Par la nature, heureux comme avec une femme.

Arthur Rimbaud
Mars 1870.

trailer trash - The Boat That Rocked

OMG this movie makes me want to 1. build a time machine 2. use it to go back in time to hang out with the real people who did this 3.rage even more to British Rock.

Summer Movie List

With Memorial Day upon us, summmer is officially here adn my second favorite time of the year for movies. While Summer generally pales in comparison to the oscar bait the Winter provides, in terms of caliber and quality of films, I still love to watch shit blow up and that's what summer is all about. With Wolverine and Star Trek out of the way the field is wide open for me to waste a bunch of money/be thoroughly entertained. I figured if I wrote out what flicks were coming out in advance it would save me some time, money and also give you guys an idea of what's coming out when too (you can check out trailers by clicking on the titles.)


Terminator:Salvation While I’ve been a fan of Christian Bale for over a decade, Anton Yelchin is the high school boyfriend I always wanted and have been drooling over Sam Worthington for a number of weeks now, the 'Common factor' (the fact that the every movie the rapper is in turns out shitty) was 1 of my major drawbacks and not that McG has duped me 1 time too many into loving the craptastic masterpieces he helms (Fastlane and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle anyone?) But I decided a few days ago my appreciation of ridiculous explosions and hot guys would win out.

UP (5/29) If the trailer for this movie doesn't make you smile- even just on the inside- you have no doul

Hangover (6/5) Quite possibly THE comedy I'm most excited for. (I've had a crush on Bradley Cooper since Alias & am pretty sure it's not gonna fade anytime soon.)

Moon (6/12 limited) I'd watch Sam Rockwell in almost anything...but preferably Charlie's Angels over and over and over and over and over again...

Transformers (6/24) I used to be a robot, gotta support the Autobots.

Public Enemies (7/1) Starring Johnny Depp & Christian Bale and directed by Michael Mann, there's no doubt I'm seeing this movie

Bruno (7/10)

Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince (7/15)

500 Days of Summer (7/17)

Funny People (7/31) Eric Bana and Leslie Mann are the main reasons why I want to catch this.

Julie & Julia (8/7)

District 9 (8/14) There's just something I find really intriguing about this film

Paper Heart (8/14)

Taking Woodstock 8/14

Inglorious Basterds (8/21) Tarantino + Pitt + WWII flick + gratuitous violence + Pitt's
ridiculous stache = me being there for a 12:00AM showing

The Boat That Rocked (8/28)

Flicks I'm still on the fence about
Land of the Lost (6/5) while I love Danny McBride and Anna Friel, I still have the iconic craptastic quality of the original show burned into my memory. Plus Will Ferrell already duped me into seeing him in "Bewitched" & there's only so many shitty "reimagings" I'm willing to pay to sit through.

Taking of Pelham 123 (6/15) I think it's the Travolta as villain factor that's not really pushing me to check this out.

Year One (6/19)

GI Joe (8/7)

Want to but will prob wait for DVD
How To Be (4/29) I love an endearing indie,especially if it's musically related, but I'm pretty sure this wasn't and won't be released in The States.

Away We Go (6/5 limited) The only reason this movie fell into this category is because it probably won't be released here, even though it shot for a week last summer in Morningside.

The Proposal (6/19) I love Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds but am trying to avoid romantic comedies

Cheri (6/26) Only because this probably won't be released anywhere near me

Ugly Truth (7/24) [See what I wrote about "The Proposal" and replace SB & RR wuth Gerard Butler] plus I'm not really a fan of Katherine Heigl

Post Grad (8/21) I spent almost a 3rd of my life watching Gilmore Girls, but don't need to watch a movie about an existence similar to the one I'm currently living.

please take a moment to Rock the F out to - Late of the Pier

I caught these guys on Sunday night before The Kills after an amazing and exhausting weekend at Coachella last month, and they kept me rocking though I was totally burned out. God knows how old they all are since none of them look a day over 16, but they rock out hard with sick synths and batty on stage antics and lots and lots of energy. So what better way to kick off your summer than with Late of the Pier!

Bears Are Coming(Live on BBC Sound)


Bathroom Gurgle I not only love the titlt of this song, but also the fact that the band is shirtless


Broken


Heartbeat


Focker


Space and the Woods


Bears Are Coming

Star Trek Review

Since there are just soooooooooo many movies coming out this summer, I'm going to keep these review short and sweet. While I've always been a fan of sci-fi, I never was a Star Trek fan but this movie made me one. J.J Abrams is a more than capable director, that excels at telling a great story that just happens to be action packed (ex. season 1 of both Alias & LOST.) Not only is the film cinematically stunning from the startm the acting holds up too throughout considering what a broad ensemble it is. While Chris Pine is technially the "star" beacuse he plays Captain James Tiberius Kirk, Zachary Quinto (of 'Heroes') owns the movie as Spock. Simon Pegg of course does a brilliant job with comic relief, Anton Yelchi...well he's just too darn adorable not to mention and Karl Urban is a stone fox. There's more I could say, but everyone, their mother and their uncle Adolf has built this movie up so just go check it out for yourself, since I have and probably will again.

My rating: 9.5/10

trailer trash - 500 Days of Summer

I gave this film a mention back in April because of my appreciation of for Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but thought it deserved the proper trailer trash presentation and it gives me an excuse for me to give him props for being brilliantly brooding on the cover and inside of V-MAN Magazine.

please take a moment to Chill the F out to - Bat for Lashes

Bat for Lashes has been racking up the critical acclaim for a few years now and has been compared to the likes of Björk and Imogen Heap, but I think I may fall for this woman (real name Natasha Khan,) like I fell for Lykke Li. I caught her on the "Late Show with David Letterman" with David Letterman a few weeks ago, and have had "Daniel" stuck in my head since.

Daniel Live on Letterman


Horse & I (Live at The Mercury Prize Awards)


Prescilla


I'm On Fire (Live)

What's A Girl to Do


Siren Song


Lonely


Sad Eyes


Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics Cover)


Daniel (album version)


Horse & I (album version)

trailer trash - Precious

This movie won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience at Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and is got the same amount of praise when it premiered at The Cannes Film Festival this past weekend. It looks absolutely amazing, incredibly stark & I was already fighting back tears by the end of the trailer, so I can only imagine how brilliant the work as a whole is considering the talent of the cast and the original work it was adapted from...

and yes that is Mariah Carey.

It's Monday...

With Roland-Garros, otherwise known as The French Open starting in less than a week, I thought I'd give props to Liev and the tournament. Between the time difference in France and the Eastern & Western Conference Finals in the NBA, I'll be lucky to go to bed before 1am, over the next 2 weeks.

The Love of Lies

L'Amour du mensonge
Quand je te vois passer, ô ma chère indolente,
Au chant des instruments qui se brise au plafond
Suspendant ton allure harmonieuse et lente,
Et promenant l'ennui de ton regard profond;

Quand je contemple, aux feux du gaz qui le colore,
Ton front pâle, embelli par un morbide attrait,
Où les torches du soir allument une aurore,
Et tes yeux attirants comme ceux d'un portrait,

Je me dis: Qu'elle est belle! et bizarrement fraîche!
Le souvenir massif, royale et lourde tour,
La couronne, et son coeur, meurtri comme une pêche,
Est mûr, comme son corps, pour le savant amour.

Es-tu le fruit d'automne aux saveurs souveraines?
Es-tu vase funèbre attendant quelques pleurs,
Parfum qui fait rêver aux oasis lointaines,
Oreiller caressant, ou corbeille de fleurs?

Je sais qu'il est des yeux, des plus mélancoliques,
Qui ne recèlent point de secrets précieux;
Beaux écrins sans joyaux, médaillons sans reliques,
Plus vides, plus profonds que vous-mêmes, ô Cieux!

Mais ne suffit-il pas que tu sois l'apparence,
Pour réjouir un coeur qui fuit la vérité?
Qu'importe ta bêtise ou ton indifférence?
Masque ou décor, salut! J'adore ta beauté.

— Charles Baudelaire



The Love of Lies
When I see you pass by, my indolent darling,
To the sound of music that the ceiling deadens,
Pausing in your slow and harmonious movements,
Turning here and there the boredom of your gaze;

When I study, in the gaslight which colors it,
Your pale forehead, embellished with a morbid charm,
Where the torches of evening kindle a dawn,
And your eyes alluring as a portrait's,

I say within: "How fair she is! How strangely fresh!"
Huge, massive memory, royal, heavy tower,
Crowns her; her heart bruised like a peach
Is ripe like her body for a skillful lover.

Are you the autumn fruit with sovereign taste?
A funereal urn awaiting a few tears?
Perfume that makes one dream of distant oases?
A caressive pillow, a basket of flowers?

I know that there are eyes, most melancholy ones,
In which no precious secrets lie hidden;
Lovely cases without jewels, lockets without relics,
Emptier and deeper than you are, O Heavens!

But is it not enough that you are a semblance
To gladden a heart that flees from the truth?
What matter your obtuseness or your indifference?
Mask or ornament, hail! I adore your beauty.